Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?

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Currently reading: I don’t think I read a page of In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. This is being a lot slower than I wanted it to be because I am enjoying this book. I like that it’s there when I need it, so I’m actually okay with this.
I’m enjoying 10% Happier by Dan Harris so far. I’m not familiar with Harris as a TV personality so it’s teaching me about him as well as his philosophy. This is reading more like a memoir than a self-help book so far and I like that a bit better. I’m a sucker for a good memoir and I’m open to what Harris is going to say. I think we could all do with being 10% happier.
I’ve only just started Peace Breaks Out by John Knowles. I watched the movie for A Separate Peace last week but I’m not sure the plots will overrun at all. The summary makes me think it will be only the setting so I’m excited to see if any characters reappear.

Recentlyfinished: I rushed through The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd to have it finished by the time my book club met and it was a good read. I liked the historical context and setting a lot and give Kidd a lot of credit for the research she was able to do for the book. I posted my review yesterday so please go check it out!

I also posted a review for The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart last Thursday so please go check that out as well! Please know my rating is for the audiobook and if I’d read it as a coffee table book, I might have rated it differently.

Reading Next: My next physical book will be In One Person by John Irving. It’s a book club selection and Irving is one of my all-time favorite writers so I’m really excited to read this one. I’ve had the book on my shelf for almost three years and I’m pumped to crack the spine.

Leave a comment with your link and a comment (if you’re so inclined). Take a look at the other participant links in the comments and look at what others are reading.

I think I could definitely do with being at least 10% happier (or possibly 100% at the moment) so I may need to check out that book. I admire your self control on In the Garden of Beasts. If I’m enjoying a book I tend to abandon everything else to read it constantly even though I kind of wish I could take the time to savour it.

I’ve been meaning to read a John Irving novel. I’ve watched Simon Birch, which I know is a ‘suggested adaptation’ of A Prayer for Owen Meaney and which devastated me as a young girl.
Did you enjoy the movie version of A Separate Peace? It’s been so long, I don’t really remember how it stands as an adaptation.
Happy Reading 🙂
Here’s my WWW Wednesday: https://aliasfaithrivens.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/www-wednesday-the-sixteenth/

It was a decent adaptation. To be fair, it’s been ages since I read the book so I didn’t think it best to write a comparison post here. I forgot the ending for the majority of the movie, which was kind of fun. Happy Wednesday!

I’ve also had In One Person on my TBR for years and yet John Irving is an author i love. I’ll look forward to reading your updates as you read and hopefully it’ll inspire me to start reading it soon! I’m glad to hear The Invention of Wings was such a good read – that’s also on my TBR and I hope to read it before too much longer. Hope you have a great reading week 🙂

In One Person sounds really good. I especially love that it has a bisexual narrator as bi representation in books is severely lacking (at least in my experience/opinion)! I’ll definitely be looking forward to seeing what you think of it. 🙂

It’s always nice when book club choices coincide with books you’ve been meaning to read.
And it must be nice to always have a Larsen book waiting for whenever you have some time for it – his books are easy to enjoy in big chunks or piecemeal, I’ve found.
Here’s my WWW post: https://siderealday.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/www-wednesday-727/